Will people still be declared heroes if ZANU-PF loses elections?

HON. TEKESHE: Can you please indulge me because this is very important, for it is a national thing.  The one I defeated was acknowledged.  The next door Member of Parliament was acknowledged; they gave them chairs.  So, if ZANU PF loses elections, does it mean there would be no heroes and war veterans?  We need to respect these people as a nation.  I am standing here because of those people.  So, when I attend that place, I should also be respected as a Member of Parliament who was chosen by the people.  We are where we are – yes they can say bwa, bwa but we are where we are because we fail to respect each other.

THE HON. SPEAKER:  I get your point.

HON. TEKESHE: Mr. Speaker Sir, just a second.

THE HON. SPEAKER: Ok wind up, your minute is over.

HON. TEKESHE: We are where we are, our economy, our politics because of this attitude of big brother who is a bully.  The way they are bullying me is because of that.  Why can you not take a page from Odinga and Kenyatta who came together? That is politics,   nothing else but the nation is what we want.  Thank you Mr. Speaker Sir.– [HON. MEMBERS: Inaudible interjections.] -MR. Speaker, the way these people are behaving, I can start doing that as well here.

THE HON SPEAKER: Order, order Hon. Members.  There is no specific guidelines in terms of how the public should conduct themselves in terms of carrying out proceedings for the burial of a lost member who might be a liberation hero or a liberation war hero.  We no longer have provincial but we have liberation hero or liberation war hero. As to the dress code, that has not been defined in any Act including the Heroes Act, and also in terms of the Hon. Member not being recognised, it could be a question of whosoever was director of ceremonies there.  It is a matter that was very local in a sense. In any case, there was no harm in recognising you as the Member of Parliament for the place.  So let us have a code of conduct in the law, which you must make yourselves as the august House.  Then that law will have to be followed accordingly.  At the moment we do not have anything in the Heroes Act in terms of the dress code.  I thank you.

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